School+newsletters+and+websites

=**Interacting with administrator **=

In our Chinese culture, we often mention how important it is to “build relationship”, “关系guanxi”, because “the relationship” will help you to pave the way. I have found it is the same way in America in a different extend, so do not ignore the power of “relationship” even you are working in American school. How to build a good “关系guanxi” with your administrator? Good communications! Communication with your administrators is crucial in your language teaching. It will be easier for your administrators to support you in field trips, grant applications, school functions, etc. if they know what you are doing from time to time. Administrators are often very busy and are pull in all different directions, they may not reply to your email all the time, but don’t give up on keeping the communication going. Writing a short email straight to the point (with easy to read bullet points) to let them know how things are going. For example: Invitation: “in Chinese class, we have been teaching Moon Festival, we will be tasting Moon cake next Tue. Please stop by and join us!! We will love to have you!” Request: “Dear Mr. D, I have talked to the department chair, and she wanted me to contact you with these matters: 1. Field trip approval: I will be sending you the form for you to sign in your mailbox. 2. Chinese fair location: Chinese teachers association is requesting to use our school for the fair, is it possible? and who should I contact to file this request? Thank you for your support!
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You will want to make sure you always look for answers from your colleagues first before you go to your administrators; if you are like the boy from the “crying wolf”, it’s hard to get your administrators attention when you really need it.

Seek any chance you have to publish any activities you have done in your class to post on school newsletters, even if it’s just a few lines, like: Chinese class students are off for a good start this semester, we are now learning how to address family members in Chinese and making a family-tree poster in Chinese. Try to put a photo along with your news to attract more attention and make it more fun if possible.
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